Together in Sicily HUB to improve African IP experience

»  operates Internet exchanges (IXs or IXPs) in Europe, US and Middle East

»  provides peering at all DE-CIX exchanges: the settlement-free exchange of Internet traffic

»  serves and connects almost 700 networks worldwide (all kinds of Internet service providers, carriers and network operators)

»  is strictly carrier and data center-neutral

»  is owned by the eco association, Europe’s largest non-profit association for the Internet industry

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Sicily – Seacable Hub

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Chart: Source RIPE ASN Data / Table: Source Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2013–2018

»  100 % owned and managed by DE-CIX

»  Colocated in SicilyHUB in Palermo

»  Fully redundant set-up based on the award-winning DE-CIX Apollon switching fabric

»  All state-of-art peering services available from day one

»  Ports: 1GE, 10GE and 100 GE

»  Private and public peering solutions

»  Just a cross-connect away from your router in SicilyHUB

»  Going live: Q 3 2015

»  Order your port now and get 6 months for free.

DE-CIX Palermo Facts

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Sicily is a crossway of many submarine cables from Africa, Asia and Mediterranean Basin

Sicily is the natural Hub to Peer with content and manage your network with benefits in terms of: •  Latency •  Reliability •  Protection •  Savings

To  Athens  (Greece),  Istanbul  (Turkey)  

To  Tripoli  (Libya)  

To  Malta  

To  Europe/US  

SMW-­‐3  

To  Kelibia  (Tunisia)  

To  US  

PALERMO  

IMEWE  

To  Tel  Aviv,  Haifa  (Israel)  

TRAPANI  

MARSEILLE  

CATANIA  MAZARA  

To  Far  East  

To  Europe  

Cables landing in Sicily!

SMW-3 SMW-4 SMW-5 IMEWE

MED Nautilus Italy-Tunisia Italy-Libia Italy-Malta

FLAG MENA

GBI

Sicily Hub is the next peering location

Sicily Hub is the place where to peer

Into the

Mediterranean,

Closer to Africa

and Middle

East , Sicily is

the doorway to

Europe

Sicily Hub is TI Sparkle’s Data Center in Palermo (Sicily) that has been designed to become the leading IP gravity center in the Mediterranean basin where Content meets ISPs

Sicily Hub Value Proposition •  Open colocation facility •  Connected with all landing stations in Sicily •  Private or Public Peering through DE-CIX, the world

largest neutral IX •  Content, the most important players have chosen Sicily

Hub to interconnect with ISPs •  Flexibility, to manage submarine and terrestrial capacity

efficiently •  Marketplace, to purchase/sell any telecommunication

and cloud solutions

Sicily Hub is the natural Mediterranean Gateway to the Internet

IP gravity concept

STREAMING TV

E-commerce ISP

IXP

Gaming

Portals

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Media

Alternative providers

Content

CDN

Sicily Hub is TI Sparkle’s Data Center in Palermo (Sicily) that has been designed to become the leading IP gravity center in the Mediterranean basin

where Content meets ISPs

Sicily Hub is a marketplace for all your needs

Sicily Hub is the next European Hub

Benefits !

Complete flexibility between submarine links and long backhauls •  grooming of long backhauls

•  grooming of capacity coming from different submarine cables

•  implement self-protection network plan to promptly react at submarine cable faults

•  better reaction in case of submarine cable fault

Managed

Bandwidth

IP Transit

Backhaul

Mobile

Services

VPN

Sicily Hub is not only peering

Peering

sicilyhub@telecomitalia.it